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That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 12
Died: 1958
Died: September 22
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It is only in his head that man is heroic in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.
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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
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To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle in our prime, the wine bottle in our dotage, the pill bottle.
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Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
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Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
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[When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against distraction. I talk to people, move about, appear on the surface much as usual. But later on I have only a confused memory of what has happened during that period.
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I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.
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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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Used to move so much, every time the chickens saw the team put in the wagon, they'd lie down on their backs and hold their legs up to be tied!
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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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Curious, how one remembered Christmas. Perhaps because other days might appeal to the head, but this one appealed to the heart.
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as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.
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Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child.
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From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.
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